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Joe Biden is corrupt and weak so he is a top candidate for the Dems. They will easily control him and get into the positions they like. That’s why they push for his nomination. If there wasn’t a forced endorsement from his fellow Democrats Biden would have been out of the race by now. Joe Biden held a ‘rally’ with Kamala Harris and Cory Booker on Monday night at a high school gymnasium in Detroit, Michigan. As always the rally was low energy with barely anyone in attendance. Biden was flanked by two big-name Senators who just endorsed him and...

...President Trump is right when he accuses the Democrats of working “to inflame the coronavirus situation.” They regard the outbreak as an opportunity for scoring political points. Moreover, they have behaved so irresponsibly during the past three years that what little credibility they enjoyed has evaporated. Gallup finds that Congress has a 23 percent approval rating. The reality is that the president, the CDC, and the NIH are doing as well as most reasonable voters would expect with the coronavirus outbreak. When it becomes obvious that the Democrats have cynically exploited this serious public health risk in one last attempt...

Phillip Agnew, a newly appointed senior adviser for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, came under fire over the weekend over uncovered tweets from 2009 where he spoke despairingly about former First Lady, Michelle Obama. In the tweets Agnew commented on Obama’s looks, while also touting conspiracy theories regarding America’s involvement in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.(snip) In one of the tweets from October 22, 2009 Agnew wrote, “Random thought while standing in Gas Station: Michelle Obama is an odd looking woman…I’d rather call her ugly but I don’t want the...

U.S. military forces have begun leaving Afghanistan and will not be replaced, despite the political unrest that threatens the recently signed Taliban peace agreement that has resulted in the troop withdraw. The initial U.S. troop withdrawal is based on a joint declaration between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and a U.S. agreement with the Taliban requiring the political-military group to stop its deadly attacks on America’s Afghan allies. Per the agreement, Washington will try to cut the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan from 13,000 to 8,600. A complication arose Monday as Afghanistan’s rival leaders — Ashraf...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation raided a health care business linked to Joe Biden’s brother in late January, seizing boxes of documents. The raid of an Americore Health hospital represented a deepening of the legal morass surrounding James Biden’s recent venture into health care investing at a time when questions about the business dealings of Joe Biden’s relatives, and their alleged connection to the former vice president’s public service, continue to dog his presidential campaign. In the weeks since the raid, two small medical firms that did business with James Biden have claimed in civil court proceedings to have obtained...

On March 5, 2020, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled the dangerous referendum to require guns to be locked up, and to bypass ordinary protections of tort law where firearms are concerned, had a ballot title caption and “yes” result which did not comply with state law. From justia.com: In consolidated cases, petitioners sought judicial review of the Oregon Attorney General’s certified ballot title for Initiative Petition 40 (2020) (IP 40). If enacted, IP 40 would establish requirements for securing firearms, reporting the loss or theft of firearms, and supervising minors’ use of firearms. It would also establish consequences for violating...

MSNBC and math haven’t had a good week. A few days ago, talking heads made a third-grade mistake when hypothetically divvying up Bloomberg’s advertising budget among Americans. And on Monday, a guest virologist announced that 20% of Americans are going to die from the coronavirus, which is an embarrassing miscalculation... ...Fair's confusion arose because he forgot that it's only the very old (over 80 years) or very sick that will have a 15-20 percent mortality rate. The very aged, however, do not come close to making up 20 percent of the population. The 75-to-84-year-old cohort is only 4.4 percent of...

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taly's Dr. Daniele Macchini, describes his experience with coronavirus. Here it is, translated from the original Italian

...All university endowments over $1 billion in size should pay their fair share in taxes to pay off student loans. A 25 percent–per-year tax on these tax-subsidized behemoths can go towards helping deal with the student loan crisis. Any student attending a college with an endowment of greater than $1 billion is ineligible for student loans or federal student grants or scholarships. The combination of these two items will force the relevant universities to use their endowments to help students out rather than hoarding the money...

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A Joe Biden presidency would be a bonanza for plaintiff's lawyers. After his strong performance in the South Carolina Democratic primary and on Super Tuesday, Biden has been consolidating support among a wide range of key Democratic constituencies. But the trial lawyers have been backing him since before it became trendy. Four Biden fundraising events tell the story. On May 21, 2019, Biden had a fundraiser at a home of Orlando, Fla., lawyer John Morgan. Orlando magazine reported the event raised $1.7 million and reports that Morgan owns, with his wife, the plaintiff's law firm Morgan & Morgan, and also...

That’s it. I have heard it all! As a southern person, I say the word “y’all” all the time. It is a conjunction of the words “you” and “all”. I use it for everyone. It doesn’t matter if you’re male, female, old, young, white, black….In no way, shape, or form is the word racist. That is, unless you’re a liberal I guess. I came across an article calling for the word “y’all” to be banned because thy fee the word is racist. NPC Daily writer Neville Croft wrote, “[A] new hate word is increasingly being used by the alt-right. The...

"Fortress Europe is an illusion." So declares the Financial Times in the closing line of its Saturday editorial: "Europe Cannot Ignore Syrian Migrant Crisis." The FT undertakes to instruct the Old Continent on what its duty is and what its future holds: "The EU will face flows of migrants and asylum seekers across the Mediterranean for decades to come." Can Europe not repel this unwanted home invasion from the Global South? It is "delusional" to think so, says the FT. Europe must be realistic and set about "providing legal routes for migrants and asylum seekers." What occasioned the editorial was...

The TDS press has lost all perspective when it comes to the president and frankly, it's making us all sick. Everyone settle down. Welcome back to Propaganda and the Death of Media 101. Its, um, March 9, 2024. Now we were discussing the role of propaganda and the media in the re-election of Donald Trump by tying his leadership to a global pandemic. Propaganda in these cases seeks to diminish people’s view of a leader’s competence. The ultimate goal is to influence you to vote him out. The word “influenza” even comes from the Italian word for “influence.” Okay class,...

You just cannot make this stuff up. – The Democrat toadies at the Washington Post have a new piece out this morning which details growing concern in the Quid Pro Joe camp about their candidates’ obviously advancing cognitive issues. The buffoon who produced 2-3 wtf moments per week on the trail during the first few months of his campaign has recently been giving us 2-3 such brain freezes each day, and the that frequency was becoming too much for the corrupt news media to gloss over as mere “gaffes.” Thanks to the DNC/Media narrative advancing Biden’s “electability,” none of this...

The Teacher Retirement System of Texas has a big problem on its hands. A few weeks ago, it was discovered that TRS—the state agency responsible for overseeing teacher pensions—had signed a multi-year lease for luxurious office space in downtown Austin costing more than $326,000 per month. That handsome sum secured 100,000 sq. ft. spanning three floors at the not-yet-open Indeed Tower, a stunning high-rise featuring “extensive office amenities, including a fitness center, dedicated conference center and outdoor terraces.” Not surprisingly, news of the luxury lease didn’t sit well. Even the Texas Retired Teachers Association, a special interest not known for...

As countries around the world grapple with the coronavirus, Taiwan may offer valuable lessons on how to curb its spread. Just 81 miles away, the island is a short flight to mainland China, where COVID-19 is believed to have originated in the city of Wuhan. As the outbreak took hold in January, many Taiwanese business people and their families based in China were returning to celebrate the Lunar New Year, and up to 2,000 Chinese tourists a day visited the island, potentially bringing the virus with them. And yet, Taiwan has had only 47 cases of COVID-19 and one death...

Is Nicolle Wallace so blinded by her hatred of President Trump that she's forgotten--assuming she ever knew--that the leaders of China don't stand for election. It's a communist dictatorship, you know? On her MSNBC show this afternoon, swiping at President Trump for having worn a Keep America Great cap while touring the CDC, Wallace said: "Ben Rhodes, if a foreign leader like, I don't know, the leader of China or Italy were touring his or her nation’s version of the CDC or the W.H.O. in a cap that reflected their sport's interest, that would be weird. If they were wearing...

PITTSBURGH -- Five years ago, the sad goodbye to an icon began when Macy's decided to close its flagship location in downtown Pittsburgh. The void, alas, still remains. For most of that building's storied 110-plus-year-old life, until Macy's took it 15 years ago, it was Kaufmann's department store: a place where parents, whether they were working-class or well-to-do, took their babies to get fitted for their first pair of shoes; or purchased their communion dress, prom dress, wedding gown, back-to-school clothes; or bought them the sheets, furniture, toasters, pots and pans they needed to start their adult lives. It was...